- #MAX2PLAY WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE JIVELITE WORK HOW TO#
- #MAX2PLAY WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE JIVELITE WORK ZIP FILE#
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- #MAX2PLAY WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE JIVELITE WORK SOFTWARE#
Con: Even a small netbook is still a bulky device which is not easy to hide. Pro: If you have an old laptop or netbook available and an SD card then you get it working without extra costs. In this case you just plug in this device into the line in of the speaker and voila.
#MAX2PLAY WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE JIVELITE WORK HOW TO#
I already showed in my first post and youtube video, how to turn any old intel based laptop or netbook into a headless audio player that can be controlled by a webinterface on your smartphone or other PC, while closed and hidden from sight. A netbook/laptop with Volumio and the Spotify plugin. In this post, I will discuss three different devices to achieve this. A big let down by Medion, but how to solve this? In the end, I opted just to use the line-in of the speaker and connect some “low-cost” device that supports Spotify.
#MAX2PLAY WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE JIVELITE WORK UPDATE#
It could and should support Spotify connect, but most probably lacks a firmware update to enable this feature. In my previous post, I discussed the problem with the Medion P69055 WiFi multiroom speaker and Spotify connect. This also seems a good topic for a Youtube tutorial so stay tuned! That makes it even simpler, I hope to have time soon to get this up and running.
#MAX2PLAY WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE JIVELITE WORK ZIP FILE#
However commenter Wim, indicated that this key is already present in the zip file provided by Balubuze. I also thought that you also needed a Spotify app developers key, which your can request here.
#MAX2PLAY WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE JIVELITE WORK SOFTWARE#
This is no problem as you would rather use the Spotify software or app to control playback.
It has no connection with the Volumio interface yet, so no control via this interface or cover-art. It is a basic plugin that just makes your Volumio device show up as a Spotify Connect device. The plugin is specific for ARM6 and ARM7 chip based computers such the Rasberry Pi’s, so if you are running Volumio on a Intel machine, bad luck for now. I am planning to test Balbuze’s Spotify Connect plugin “Volspotconnect” in Volumio shortly on my Pi Zero that currently runs Max2play. In the meanwhile, Volumio has beaten Max2Play to the punch via support of third party plugins and the coding work available at Github of user “Balbuze” which seem to be based on previous work of “Fornoth” and “Plietar”. However the developer(s) of Max2Play does not seem to warm-up to this feature, while it trumps to be the multiroom audio centered OS. The requested features section of the user forums of both Volumio and Max2Play show major interest in Spotify Connect. It works, but the look and feel of LMS is very dated, so I am still on the lookout for improvement and I am not alone.
But the two audioplayer OSes that I am current testing did not support Spotify Connect so far, so I am currently resorting to a multiroom setup using Max2Play, Logitech Media Server (LMS) and the “triode” Spotify plugin to control several devices (RPis with Squeezeplayer software/Squeezebox duet receiver) for audio playback. I also discussed that I am a Spotify user and love the Spotify Connect feature and the multiroom speaker possibility it brings. In previous posts I already talked about all these different headless audioplayer operating systems there are for small single board computers such as the Raspberry Pies (eg.
Stopping and restarting the instance of the plug-in will deal with this, but this should not be needed. After some time the device Max2play with the Spotify connect plugin installed and running disappears from the list of available devices in the Spotify App.
As already said there are some stability issues. You can find my video tutorial and demonstration of the functionality below. Installation is quite straightforward, but also a bit more hassle than Volumio, especially when you are also using also other audio-players such as Squeezelite on Max2play. In this sense, Volumio with the Balbuze plugin is still the cheapest solution. This plugin has some prerequisites: It will only work if you’re a Max2play premium user (€9,99/year) and a Spotify premium user. It is still a beta version, with still some stability issues but if it is running, it works as it should. A missed chance in my view, as there was a clear appetite for it if you checked the feature requests on their forum.īut they clearly took up the gauntlet, and after perfecting their plugin infrastructure and suggesting to the user community they could create a Spotify connect plugin, they came with such a plugin themselves. I also pointed out that the competing OS, Max2play did not seem interested in incorporating this feature in their OS. In a previous post, I discussed a plugin for Volumio to add Spotify connect ability to this headless audio-player OS.